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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, January 6, 1938
IONE NEWS
Henry Clark Takes
Hotel Management
By MARGARET BLAKE
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clark have
taken over the management of the
Park hotel. Mr. and Mrs. F. C.
Hinckley who have had charge dur
ing the past month, have gone to
Kennewick, Wn., where Mr. Hinck
ley has a farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Rietmann en
tertained at their home last Thursday
evening with a bridge party. Guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Denny,
Mr. and Mrs. Werner Rietmann, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Blake, Mr. and Mrs.
Ture Peterson and Mr. and Mrs. Vic
tor Peterson. Prizes went to Mr. and
Mrs. Ture Peterson and Mr. and
Mrs. Werner Rietmann.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ledbetter
moved on Tuesday to the farm near
Lexington recently vacated by John
and George Clark, which they have
rented.
The Women's Topic club will meet
at the home of Mrs. Bert Mason on
Friday, Jan. 7, instead of the date
previously announced.
Mrs. T. C. Riffe has been em
ployed to care for Mrs. Ida Peterson.
Miss Margaret McDevitt has re
turned to her school work at Bend
after spending her vacation with
her sister, Miss Cassie McDevitt.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mankin re
turned home Friday from Portland
where they had spent a week at the
home of Mrs. Mankin's sister and
brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes
Gabbert.
Robert Smith with his son and
daughter, Harvey and Bonnie, has
returned from a month's visit in Cal
ifornia. Cecil Thorne entertained a group
of friends at his home with a watch
party on New Year's eve.
Otto Rietmann is driving a new
coupe.
Mr. and Mrs. August Peterson of
Yakima, Wn., are the parents of a
daughter, Patricia Ann, born to them
on December 15.
Mrs. A. Newlin arrived last Friday
to visit her sister and mother, Mrs.
Paul O'Meara and Mrs. Ellen Rieth.
Members of the class of 1935 of
lone high school were hosts to the
classes of 1934 and 1936 at the I. 0.
0. F. hall last Thursday evening.
Twenty-two members of the classes
and six guests were present. Mrs.
Walter Eubanks and Mrs. E. C. Hel
iker chaperoned the party. The eve
ning was spent in dancing.
Gene Grabil was operated on at
The Dalles last week for appendi
citis. He has been very ill.
Miss Norma Blahm of Hermiston
was a week-end guest at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Peterson.
Quite a large crowd attended the
New Year's dance given in the Le
gion hall by Willows grange last
Saturday night.
Mrs. Minnie Forbes returned Fri
day from Oakdale, Cal., where she
spent several days with her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
John Osteen.
Mrs. Alice Wiles and son Floyd
returned Sunday from Tygh Valley
where they spent the holidays with
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Palmateer en
tertained a large party of friends at
their ranch home near Morgan last
Friday evening, the occasion being
a housewarming for their lately re
modeled home. The evening was
spent playing cards and visiting.
Mrs. Ada Cannon and family spent
a part of the vacation visiting Mrs.
Cannon's daughter in Portland.
While there Bud, Lola and Char
lotte drove to Albany for a visit with
Miriam Hale and to Salem where
they saw Juanita Odom.
Francis Ely returned to his school
work at Willamette university last
Thursday.
Leo Young has returned to O. S.
C. after spending the holidays with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F.
Young.
The members of the P. C. Peter
son, Lewis Ball and Ralph Ledbetter
families joined in giving Ralph Led
better a birthday dinner at his home
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Callandra and
son Donald visited relatives here
on last Thursday, returning to their
home at Hood River Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bergevin, with
Betty and Denward, drove to Gib
bon to be present at the annual fam
ily dinner of the Bergevins, on New
Year's day. From there Betty and
Denward returned to their schools
atBaker and Spokane, respectively.
Sunday marked the exodus of the
many college students. Charles and
Wallace Lundell returned to Pacific
university, and Misses Eva Swan
son and Joyce Carlson to O. S. C.
On Friday Misses Rossbelle and
Mignonette Perry returned to their
schools, U. of O. and Pacific univer
sity. George Ely and Mrs. Nellie Riffe
spent New Year's day at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Ely at Board
man. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Rietmann
were Pendleton visitors last Friday.
The Union Sunday school will hold
its annual election of officers at the
Christian church next Sunday morn
ing, Jan. 9. All interested are urged
to be present.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Clark were
hosts to a fun Christmas party given
at their home on the evening of
December 22. Guests included Mar
ian Nebergal, Mary Alice Rulifson,
Linea Troedson, Helen Lundell, Ber
nice Ring, Jane Fitzpatrick, Harry
Normoyle, Paul Pettyjohn, Alexan
der MacDonald, Larry Ritchie, Er
vin Ritchie, Lowell Clark, Val Jean
Clark.
Increasing Safety
Shown on Highways
A remarkable decrease in highway
deaths during the last quarter of
1937 was the highlight of traffic safe
ty news for the year, Secretary of
State Earl Snell declared in review
ing the highway picture for the last
12 months.
Other outstanding trends during
the year were:
A last-quarter slump in traffic
injuries paralleling the decrease in
deaths.
A sustained increase in highway
travel over 1936.
Continued improvement of the accident-reporting
system.
Secretary Snell reported greatly
expanded efforts by his office in the
field of traffic safety, following au
thorization of the work by the last
legislature.
Safety councils have been organ
ized or are being organized in a
number of Oregon communities, with
the help of representatives from the
secretary of state's office.
Safe driving schools have been
held in Bend, Corvallis, Albany. Dal
las, McMinnville, Newberg, Oregon
City, West Linn, Medford, Grants
Pass, Independence, Redmond and
Prineville. The schools will be ex
tended to other communities upon
the completion of present courses in
January or February.
Safety movies have been shown in
71 Oregon high schools, and will be
kept in circulation until they have
been viewed by every high school
student body in the state.
Radio programs, safety news stor
ies and speeches prepared and pre
sented by himself or members of his
staff would run into the hundreds,
Snell declared.
Continuation of the present pro
gram and development of new chan
nels of safety education are planned
for 1938, he said. He is hopeful that
with a comprehensive safety cam
paign carried on through the entire
year Oregon will take its place as the
"safest state in the union."
Oregon motorists are finding that
it does not pay to put off until to
morrow that which they should have
done before the New Year arrived,
referring particularly to the matter
of purchasing new license plates.
Drivers of cars which still display
the old 1937 plates are being tagged
by state police and instructed to ei
ther replace the old plates without
further delay or appear in court to
explain their failure to the judge.
Heavy damage was suffered by
primary and secondary highways
throughout the state as a result of
last week's storm, according to R.
H. Baldock, highway engineer.
Roads leading from the Willamette
valley to the coast north of Eugene
were hardest hit.
Cold weather has already visited
many Oregon localities, and colder
weather may be on the way. Driving
safely in cold spells depends prin
cipally on proper preparation, which
includes chains and some means of
keeping the windshield clear, ac
cording to Secretary of State Earl
Snell.
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Electricity
o Officers Change
New Car Licenses
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem Only 4.5 percent of the
potential hydro -electric power in
Oregon is being utilized, according
to a survey just completed by N. G.
Wallace, public utilities commission
er. The output capacity of private
ly owned hydro-electric plants in
Oregon, Wallace's report shows, ag
gregated 164,625 kilowatts in 1936.
These plants, operating at an aver
age of only 59 percent of capacity
generated 72 percent of the electric
energy used in the state. Steam
plants, used mainly as stand-by
plants, have an output capacity of
153,400 kilowatts.
Oregon patrons of electric utilities
buy their "juice" at a much lower
rate than do consumers in other sec
tions of the United States. Wallace's
report shows that the average rate
paid by domestic users in Oregon is
only 2.17 cents per kilowatt hour
whereas the average rate for the na
tion is 4.69 cents per kilowatt hour.
Consumption of electricity in Ore
gon increased 14 percent in 1936 over
the 1930 figure. Based upon data al
ready available gross revenues of
Oregon electric utilities for 1937 will
exceed the gross revenue of 1936 by
approximately 10 percent.
Through negotiations between the
utilities commissioner and the offi
cials of the various electric utilities
rate reductions involving a saving of
$855,670.82 to Oregon consumers were
put into effect between April 1, 1935,
and October 31, 1937.
While operating revenues of Ore
gon electric utilities show a gain of
11.1 for 1936 over 1930, operating ex
penses of the same utilities show an
increase of 16.79 percent during the
same period. Taxes alone paid by
these utilities increased 37 percent
during the seven years covered by
the report and for the year 1936 ag
gregated $2,935,888.18, representing
more than 15 cents out of each dol
lar of gross operating revenue col
lected by these utilities.
Citing 11.53 mills per kilowatt
hour as the average operating ex
pense involved in the production of
electricity by plants in Oregon the
commissioner breaks this expense
item down as follows: Production
expense, 2.25 mills; transmission ex
pense, .26; distribution, 1.11; utili
zation, .31; commercial, .81; new bus
iness, .69; general and miscellaneous,
1.22; depreciation, 1.62; uncollectible
bills, .15; taxes, 3.11.
Governor Martin has invited the
grange to hold its 1938 convention
in Salem. In a telegram to Louis J.
Taber, master of the national grange,
the governor pointed out that Ore
gon's new capitol building will be
ready for occupancy next summer
and will be available for use by the
grange for its convention. Generally
interpreted as a slap at Ray Gill,
master of the Oregon State grange,
for his well known pro -labor lean
ings the governor in his telegram to
Taber declared that "there are some
farm organization leaders who can
not decide whether to remain AFL
or go CIO. They think of politics
first, labor second and the farmer
third, if at all, in all issues affecting
the advancement of the farm industry."
Seventy-five thousand acres of
cut-over, second growth and isolated
farm lands in the Oregon Coast
range are being restored to forest
production and developed for recre
ation and wild life conservation as
three years of intensive land use
adjustment and acquisition near
completion, R. S. Shelley, project
manager, reported to Governor Mar
tin this week. Acquisition of 74,882
acres of land on the Oregon coast
valued at $428,230 and representing
395 ownerships is approximately 90
percent complete. Lands being ac
quired are adjacent to and within
the boundaries of the Siuslaw Na
tional forest. Development work is
being carried on by 540 men in co
operation with WPA. Forest recrea
tion areas have been developed at a
number of points throughout the
area. Most of these are equipped
with fireplaces, rustic tables and
benches, community kitchens, pic
nic grounds and sanitary facilities.
Thirteen changes in major state
offices are recorded during 1937.
Death claimed tw omembers of the
state's official family Justice J. U.
Campbell of the supreme court and
A. J. Derby of Hood River, member
of the State Hydro-electric commis
sion. Justice Campbell was succeed
ed by Judge Hall S. Lusk of Port
land and John Hodgen of La Grande
was appointed to succeed Derby.
Ill health was responsible for the
retirement of three other officials.
Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner, for nearly 30
years superintendent of the state
hospital for insane at Salem, re
signed and has been succeeded by
Dr. John G. Evans. Judge Charles
H. Carey quit as state corporation
commissioner to be succeeded by
James H. Hazlett of Hood River.
Albert R. Hunter retired as a mem
ber of the Industrial Accident com
mission on which he had served for
more than six years. His successor
is Roy Buchanan of Pendleton.
The offer of a lucrative post with
a private law firm induced Frank
C. McColloch to resign as public
utilities commissioner, the vacancy
being filled through appointment of
Judge N. G. Wallace of Bend.
B. F. Irvine of Portland, for 39
years identified with the state's in
stitutions of higher learning, refused
reappointment as a member of the
State Board of Higher Education.
His place was filled by Walter E.
Pearson of Portland.
Heads of two of the state's insti
tutions of higher education resigned
during the year H. E. Inlow. pres
ident of the eastern Oregon normal
at La Grande and C. V. Boyer, pres
ident of the University of Oregon at
Eugene. C. A. Howard, state super
intendent of public instruction was
elected to succeed Inlow and Donald
M. Erb, formerly a member of the
university faculty, has been elected
to succeed Boyer. Resignation of
Howard to accept the presidency of
the La Grande normal left a vacancy
in the state department of educa
tion which was filled by the appoint
ment of Rex Putnam, former city
superintendent of schools at Albany.
Orville W. Gamble resgined as
superintendent of the Employment
Institution for Adult Blind at Port
land to be succeeded by Lindon Mc
Cullough. Mrs. Gordon Voorhies of
Grants Pass asked to be relieved as
a member of the Capitol Reconstuc
tion commission, her place being fill
ed through appointment of W. H.
Treece, former member of the State
Parole Board whose place, in turn,
was filled by Lotus Langley of Port
land. Langley also resigned after
only a short experience on the Par
ole Board, to be succetded by Gerald
Mason of Portland.
Three of the new appointees are
former members of the state senate.
They are James H. Hazlett, new cor
poration commissioner; N. G. Wol
lace, utilities commissioner, and Wal
ter E. Pearson who succeeded Irvine
on the Board of Higher Educatoin.
Twelve out of 25 persons killed in
Oregon traffic accidents in Novem
ber were pedestrians, and a ma
jority of these were elderly persons
who met death after dark, Secretary
of State Earl Snell reports.
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